Wednesday,
May
31,
2006
Varanasi
(UNI):
The
activists
of
a
local
NGO
today
staged
a
'dharna'
at
Shastri
Park
here
in
support
of
actor
Aamir
Khan.
Addressing
the
gathering,
Vishal
Bharat
Sansthan
(VBS)
chairman
Rajiv
Srivastava
said
the
forces
protesting
against
the
actor
were
''fundamentalists''.
''Such
forces
want
to
supress
the
voice
of
those
fighting
for
the
cause
of
families
affected
by
Sardar
Sarovar
Dam.''
He
said
if
the
trend
continued,
there
would
be
more
like
Aamir
to
fight
for
the
rights
of
families
displaced
by
the
Dam
project.
The
dharna
titled
'Struggle
for
Truth'
saw
a
large
number
of
burqa
clad
women
decry
protests
for
Aamir
in
Gujarat.
''It
is
not
the
Gujarati
people,
who
are
against
him,
but
the
fundamentalist
forces
trying
to
strangle
freedom
of
speech,''
Mr
Srivastava
added.
The
NGO
has
also
written
a
letter
to
BJP
president
Rajnath
Singh,
demanding
an
end
to
the
practice
of
''cultural
terrorism''
reflected
through
such
protests
by
party
workers.
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